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Mirrors of Time

Description

How did our calendar come to be? Why do the seasons change? How did the days of the week get their names? And why is the year divided into days, weeks and months? From the Babylon of the moon-gazers to the Egypt of Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, through the Rome of the Caesars to the sixteenth-century Europe of Pope Gregory XIII, this is the awe-inspiring history of the measurement of time, presented in a fresh new way via the latest techniques in computer animation.

1991, 23 min 09 s

Directed by: Jean-Jacques Leduc

Produced by: Robert Forget

Production Agency: National Film Board of Canada

Also available in French

Les miroirs du temps

Credits

Director: Jean-Jacques Leduc
Script: Jean-Jacques Leduc
Producer: Robert Forget
Camera: Martin Leclerc
Animation camera: Jacques Avoine; Pierre Landry
Editing: Werner Nold
Sound editing: Marie-Claude Salvaille
Re-recording: Jean-Pierre Joutel; Shelley Craig
Animation: Claude Cloutier; Jean-Michel Labrosse; Bertrand Langlois; Yvon Mallette; Luc Savoie; Michel Hébert; Lucia Modesto
Animation software: Ines Hardtke; Terry Higgins; Doris Kochanek
Voice: Michel Mongeau; Michel Trahan
Narrator: Neil Shee; Marilyn Weston
Music: Pierre Desrochers

Awards

Golden Book Trophy - Category: Best film of the Festival

International Educational Film Festival
November 6 to 12 1993, Roshd - Iran
Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Natural Sciences

International Film and Video Festival
October 20 to 22 1992, Columbus - USA
Certificate of Merit

International Children's Film Festival
October 9 to 18 1992, Chicago - USA
Best Animation Award

Itinerant - American Film and Video Festival
May 28 to 31 1992, Chicago - USA
Gold Apple Award - Category: Science, Theory and Applies / Senior High

National Educational Media Network Competition
May 20 to 25 1992, Oakland - USA
Gold CINDY Award

Itinerant - International CINDY Competition
February 6 1992, Washington - USA
Award for Best Foreign Film

Festival du film scientifique
November 20 to 26 1991, Palaiseau - France
ANZAAS / CSIRO Award for Best Science Film (Tied with Eclipse of the Man Made Sun, Australia) - with a cash prize of 1,500$

International Film Festival
June 7 to 22 1991, Melbourne - Australia

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Animated film